Environmental Contribution

Our cloud-based operation management service helps companies that implement it reduce travel time and distance. And it contributes to the environment by helping increase the efficiency of energy such as gasoline and electricity, and reducing the CO₂ emissions they produce. Furthermore, using the real-time driving support information we provide can help drivers reduce the risk of driving associated with climate change (e.g. sudden weather changes).

Our products use printed circuit boards (hereinafter “circuit boards”) on which electrical components are mounted. The circuit boards are cut and mounted onto products in the production line, and the unused portion is recycled. Wanting to reduce the portion that is recycled, we defined an “effective utilization rate” (calculated by dividing the used area by the total area) as an indicator, set a target, and began managing it in product development. At the same time, we also optimized the shape of our circuit boards with the shape of the circuit board panels supplied from manufacturers. This enabled the circuit board manufacturers to use raw materials efficiently, and for us it led to reducing recycled circuit board material, raising awareness on wastefulness, and accelerating cost reduction. It had a positive effect on lowering the environmental impact across the supply chain by reducing waste and CO₂ emissions from the manufacturing and transportation of circuit boards.

We relocated the data center which engages data management at Pioneer to reduce the disaster risk and cost. For the relocation, we had proceeded server virtualization and abolition/ reduction of the equipment, so we could execute procedures to reduce energy consumption of IT infrastructure (reduce 61% of consumption power). Moreover, when we select the data center, we considered environmental friendly viewpoint such as utilization of recycled energy and energy saving performance, so energy consumption of accompanied facility such as light and air conditioning have been drastically improved. By this relocation, we could achieve reduction of disaster risk such as earthquake or flood damage and cost reduction of consumption power on IT equipment or accompanied facility. It also improved PUE value* to evaluate energy saving at the data center.